A 48-year-old man accused of child abuse is being held in jail without bond.

Michael Rice is facing 11 felony charges of child abuse and sexual assault in connection with incidents dating back to 1998. Officials said the investigation started with an alleged assault in late October 2013, which led to three more victims.

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Authorities said the first victim provided investigators with “significant details,” which the officer felt corroborated her allegations. The girl, who was between 14 and 17, told investigators Rice had sex with her on at least five occasions and had subjected her to other sex acts “numerous times.”

Investigators said other victims counted as many as 50 times that Rice assaulted them.

Two women told an investigator Rice sexually assaulted them beginning at the ages of 11 or 12.

One woman, who asked to remain unidentified, said Rice and his wife fostered dozens of children. She said at one time, the couple had up to 12 children in their care, including her son, who has autism.

“He lived there (starting) in 2006 for a total of 602 days,” the woman said.

The woman said her son lived with Rice as a foster child because she thought that with the couple, she would get the help for her son that she couldn’t afford. But the mother learned her son lived with Rice during a series of alleged assaults detailed in several Dodge County court documents.

“I called the jail and asked and that’s when I found out that he had numerous charges,” the woman said. “(It’s) horrifying. I don’t know what to think about that.”

She said because of autism, her son has a hard time communicating, so if something happened to him, she may never know.

An order filed in November in Dodge County Juvenile Court removed six children from Rice’s home. Authorities said Rice was the adoptive father of all of them.